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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is Yao?

2. In Chapter 7, where is the basketball team headed?

3. How did Coach Lou get the hamstring injury that forced him to quit playing basketball?

4. When Ivan is out with the flu and Paris is out with a sprained toe on February 27, 2015, who does the team beat?

5. By the time Yao retired in 2011, how many times was he an NBA All-Star?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the prevailing thought about competitive team sports for women in the 1890s?

2. When was the first slam dunk made by a woman?

3. Why does Jeevin hate Gandhi?

4. How does Jeevin frequently get taunted, and why are the taunts inaccurate?

5. How did Oderah and Arinze Chidom become basketball players?

6. Who recorded Georgeann Wells' slam dunk, and why did it take a long time to publish the video?

7. When did Oderah and her teammates at O'Dowd go to State?

8. How do the Dragons do on February 27, 2015, when Ivan and Paris are both out?

9. How did basketball come to China?

10. How did Qianjun "Alex" Zhao start playing basketball, and how did he come to play basketball in the U.S.?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Coach Phelps and Coach Lou have different team-building philosophies. How do the team-building philosophies of Coach Phelps and Coach Lou differ? How do their goals play a role in how they build their teams?

Essay Topic 2

Illustrations can be just as important as or more important than the words in a novel. How are illustrations used in Dragon Hoops? Are the illustrations less important, as important, or more important than the words in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Jeevin is a Punjabi kid who practices the Sikh faith. What are similarities and differences between the Sikh faith and Catholicism? Why did Jeevin’s faith make it difficult for him to be at O’Dowd at first?

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